Happy Valley (SAM collection) (Eocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (35.1° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 57.0° S, 133.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• "Equivalent of the Tortachilla Limestone of coastal sections"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic, argillaceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: South Australian Museum

Primary reference: B. McGowran. 1959. Tertiary nautiloids (Eutrephoceras and Cimomia) from South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 33:435-448 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171296: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia felix Chapman 1915 nautiloid